In case you are wondering about the Facebook's intentions just read this from their developer blog:
Our goal is to help people share information and connect with the people they know all over the Web. Our strategy is to become the most effective way for every developer or publisher to spread their site and create engagement. Right now there are already more than a thousand sites using Connect, and by the end of the year that number should approach the number of Platform applications.
I think we have to think about how these things that people want with open standards across platforms.
* to connect to friends.
* to have relevant context (which facebook doesn't have)
* to support community organizers (a post is coming on this soon how lame the whole situation with different people on different lists and duplicated all over the place - e-mails lists from this year, last year and facebook RSVP's).
* to share things with others.
I do worry though - about the long term. ALL college kids are in this platform - to not be in it is social suicide. From the Daily Californian August 21-24, 2008 Everything you wanted to know about berkeley but were afraid to ask freshman issue.
So is an open mind the only thing you need for a good time at Cal? Nope. You need Facebook or else you're a looser. Perhaps the best thing to ever happen to college, Facebook is the panacea for all social problems at Cal. Berkeley students are only as valuable as the number of Facebook friends and wall posts. People might dismiss Facebook as a petty distraction, but you can do some serious bonding over wall posts, tagged photos and profiles. I'm sure we've all had a friend ask "Oh my God! Did you see what she wrote on my wall?" I can honestly say Facebook has mad Cal more dynamic and exciting. So use Facebook...and use it a lot.
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